Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Sherry Turkle, Candace Allen, Amnesty International, Senna
Sherry Turkle on how new technology is changing the way we think and form relationships.
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Sheffield reinvented
New words, music and film from the "City of Steel", presented by John Gallagher.
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Shakespeare's Women
The women who crop up in Shakespeare's life, his plays and who helped conserve his legacy
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Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound
Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?
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Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer
Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.
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Shakespeare as inspiration
From Bollywood films and Pre-Raphaelite art to productions of Shakespeare in places at war
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Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Anne McElvoy looks at Russian punk protest + a version of US TV's Big Bird, Bert and Ernie
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Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns w/ Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias
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Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
Quassim Cassam & Simon Beard with Matthew Sweet + RW Fassbinder's '70s TV sci-fi series
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Secrets, Lies & Irish History
Clair Wills, Martin Doyle, Scott McKendry & Louise Brangan discuss secrets and conflict
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Sebastian Faulks
The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel Paris Echo.
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Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forch茅
The walking & photographs of WG Sebald. An exhibition of money and Jewish history.
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Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
A haunting & artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet
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Sea Goings
Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark
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Scottish Kingship
Medieval myth-making, the kings of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny
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Scientific Breakthroughs
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Schiller's Mary Stuart; G眉nter Grass. Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves.
Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from G眉nter Grass
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Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture
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Satyajit Ray's films
Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta, Chandak Sengoopta discuss Ray with Rana Mitter
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain.
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Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England
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Sarah Perry鈥檚 Melmoth, Spookiness and Fear.
The Essex Serpent's author talks to Matthew Sweet about re-imagining the Melmoth myth.
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Sarah Perry
In a conversation with Mathew Sweet, the gothic author explores writing past and present.
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Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress
Ahead of International Women's Day Shahidha Bari hears stories linking women with war
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Sankofa and Afrofuturism
Curator Ekow Eshun, academic Sarah Jilani, sculptor Zak Ov茅 with Shahihda Bari
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Samuel Johnson's circle
Patience Agbabi's novel time travels back to eighteenth century London - so do we
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Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture
If we want the arts to be a comfort blanket, where does Beckett fit in?
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Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners
Selvon's evocative 1956 novel discussed at the British Library by Shahidha Bari & guests.
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Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty
Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver plus Marcus Chown and Rachel Hewitt.
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Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson
Salman Rushdie on his new book Luka and the Fire of Life. Biographer Bettany Hughes of...
